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Geog 460
Response Paper 3:
Travels of a T-shirt Chapter 9 and 10
Chapters nice and ten of Pietra Rivolis, Travels of a T-shirt, follow on from the
previous chapters, by look at the consequences of the USs loss to China in the race to the
bottom. By focusi

Transnational Corporations (TNCs)
Colonial roots not a relatively new thing
Roots developed by west in response to colonial demands long before current stage of
globalization
British East India Company
Royal Niger Company
Dutch East India Company
East lea

Technological Change
Product space
The product space is a network representation of the relatedness or proximity between products
traded in the global market. The network exhibits heterogeneity and a core-periphery structure:
the core of the network consi

Finance Capital and Financialization
A historical process since 1980s in US
Two theories one by Marx and one by Schumpeter
Financialization
Process whereby finance capital and financial institutions account for greater share of all
economic activity
In ea

The State
Role of state in economic system
Westphalian system Contemporary international system not natural as socially and historically
constructed imagined communities nation states
The withering away of the state
In mass media, states are
Becoming por

Cost Management and the Race to the Bottom
Comparative advantage
Theory to explain the relative cost and advantages of producing certain goods and services for
overseas trade
According to Adam Smith countries have different skills and resources so special

Assignment 1: NIKE Shorts produced in Malaysia
Malaysia is a middle income country with an industrial based economy. Some of the
primary products exported by Malaysia that support their economy the most are: electronics, oil
and gas, palm oil and rubber.

One of Nikes Malaysian factories, called Hytex, came under serious scrutiny back in
2008 after undercover journalists, from Australia, drew attention to the unjust treatment of the
migrant workers (Skidmore). Due to labor shortages within Malaysia, migran

Geog 460
Response Paper 4:
Maquiladora Mestizas and a Feminist Border Politics
The chapter from Wrights book, Maquiladora Mestizas and a Feminist Border Politics,
looks at women working at factories located along the border between the US and Mexico. What

GEOG 460
Response Paper 5:
Labor Chains: Analysing the Role of Labour Contractors in Global Production Networks
The piece by Stephanie Barrientos looks at the issue of unfree labor and decent work in
global production networks (GNPs). Barrientos argues th

GEOG 460
Response Paper 2
Dickens writing on the economic effects of technological change gives an insight into
the technological transformations that have occurred as the world we live in becomes more and
more globally connected. One important concept to

Geography 460
Response Paper 1
Introduction: Questioning Globalization
In chapter one of Global Shift, Peter Dicken discusses the term Globalization,
analyzing different understandings of the term and ways of reacting to its supposed
consequences. Dicken

GEOG 460
Response Paper 6:
Where T-Shirts Go After the Salvation Army Bin
The chapter by Pietra Rivoli analyzes the global used clothing industry by looking at
what happens to a t-shirt once someone in America donates it to a charity, such as the Salvatio

Global Production Networks
World system theory
Theory from where global production networks derive
Studies historical, social change
Flow of commodity, capital, and labor creates hierarchy and power relations between
countries
Critiques methodological nat

Intro to Globalization
Early globalization
Occurred earlier than people think followed European colonization across world
First early phase of globalization ended after WWI
Trades collapsed and never actually came back until 1970/80s
Commodities
US exp

Fordism and its Crisis
Marxist economic geography
Fordism and its crisis
Marxism
One of most dominant theoretical traditions in all social sciences
Founded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Marx was German expelled by Germans because of revolutionary ide

Migration
Genres of labor migration
Neoclassical economics
The new economics of migration
Dual labor market theory
World system theory
Neoclassical economics
Most common sense migration theory
The international migration of workers is caused by difference

Uneven Development
Long tradition in geography of studying uneven development
From environmental determinism to probabilism
ED the belief that nature shapes human societies, including their differences from one another,
ways of life, cultural beliefs, phy

Origin of Economics
Division of Labor
Homo Economicus
Political Geography
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Scot considered first economist
Saw himself as a philosopher
Wrote 2 books
His time was right before the industrial revolution
Mercantilism (16th-18th cent)
B

Early History of Capitalism
Ecole des Annales
French Annales School studied archives and calculated economic statistics and contracts in
order to try and get a sense of what historical economic activities looked like
Philip II King of Spain Spain controll

Exam Review
Sample Question 1
What signaled the crisis of Fordism? When?
What is Fordism?
Dominant regime of accumulation after WWII until 1970s/80s
Talorist system of manufacturing big manufacturing plants eventually too big to fill
High wage and job

Feminist Geography Feminist Border Politics
Maquiladora
Clustering of factories
Located in the Free Trade Zones on the Mexican side of the US-Mexican border
Number flourished after NAFTA (1994) when free trade zones increased
Can make use of cheaper Mexic

Industrial Districts
Lancashire district most important
Industrial district
Industries close to each other agglomerated/agglomeration
Why? untraded interdependency share money and knowledge, lend worker, hiring people
who already have skills, etc.
Social

Human-Environment interactions
Look at PowerPoint
Butterfly effect the idea that small changes can lead to big structural changes and therefore have big
affects
Multiple interactions complexity
Complexity background
CA world depicted in cells
Cybernetics

Global Apparel/Clothing Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Trade Liberalization and Production
Networks in the New European Clothing Industry
The way in which we understand the global economy been restructured a number of times driven by
different actors

Precarity New Forms of Organization in Argentina
Precarity is one of most important labor issue across the world precarious labor because not enough
jobs and high unemployment precarity used by social movements
Lots of loans under dictatorship which lead